Truckers & Turnover Project

Survival Estimate

Stephen V. Burks, Morris associate professor of economics, who organized the Truckers & Turnover Project, in the cab of a truck tractor. In his youth Dr. Burks drove tractor-trailers professionally, which was the beginning of his interest in trucking economics.

Survival Curve for a Large Group of Truckload (TL) Drivers

Drivers in this part of trucking turn over rapidly, as is shown by this graph, which tracks what percentage of those that started remain at each week of job tenure, from 0 weeks out to 100 weeks, or almost 2 years.

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